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Name: The Dork LordHouse: Le Bleu et BronzeTitle: The Boys of WarRating/Warning: 3rd/5th Years – Character DeathA/N: Not too much a rebel song, but there is rubble.

Minerva surveys the shambles masquerading as the Great Hall, clenching her jaw at the rows of wounded and dead that line the floor in garishly neat rows. Every second, more stagger into the room, most barely able to stand yet bearing another fallen comrade.

In the corner, she sees a boy she knows all too well — a boy who shouldn’t be here. Colin is still and limp in Oliver Wood’s arms. She observes a tear rolling down the brusque Quidditch player’s cheek, but her heart stills when she hears the song.

It was Christmas, and it was the worst one he could possibly imagine. Strains of holiday music floated under his door, but the sound only made him feel worse. He closed his eyes, trying to picture them in Perkins’ tent, cold and hungry, taking turns wearing the locket.

His stomach knotted in fear. Please, don’t be dead.

But he knew they couldn’t be: if she was dead, he would know. Hope swelled, and he vowed again to find them, to make things right.

Name: OregonianHouse: SlytherinTitle: Next YearRating/Warning: 1st-2nd years, no warningA/N:

In his cupboard, Harry anticipated the coming year. At Stonewall High he would be free from the influence of his family. It would be a chance to re-invent himself.

These stupid clothes! They precluded his creating a new persona. But he had no money to buy others, and no one would help him, not his family or acquaintances. There was only one possibility: Mrs. Figg. She might do this for him -- help him get some decent clothes, even if only second-hand things from a thrift shop. They were bound to be better than Dudley's castoff. He would repay her someday.